Palestinian refugee from Syria pushed and beaten at Lebanese border crossing

On August 13., 28 year old Ahmed from Syrian’s Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp tried to enter Lebanon and join his family which he had sent to Baalbek camp earlier. When he came to the Lebanese border control he was pushed and beaten by custom officers and “treated like animals from the general Security”. He had to wait in line for some 11 hours just to be sent back by the Lebanese officials to the Syrian ones who didn’t take care of his case either. After having spent 2 days at the border he decided to return back to Damascus where he is now living in the entrance of a school in a kiosk. Masna’a Lebanon-Syria border crossing, 13.8.2013, IRIN humanitarian news and analysis